THE ASCENT OF LIFE

Two long flight of lustrous stairs Converge far onto a lofty gallery For the enigma within that bears What lies beyond a queer mystery One with a velvet red fast and low For I can gallop many above in a go Other of a silky blue steep and slow While I scramble along to make it so Oblivion of the fact that I was told Should I reach the coveted place high Wouldn't see a better world to unfold When I pause for a breath deep sigh Fearful of the sight of a deadly fall From where as both these would take Yet I decided to go with slow and tall With no reason as a choice to make. As I would say with glee and gay Not the haunts of failure and strife But memoirs of triumph which stay In this sojourn of the ascent of life